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Fall 2011
This thesis makes a contribution to the burgeoning study of the sexual identity category and sexual orientation of asexuality by arguing for its political valence and feminist potentiality. Offering a feminist reading of scientific texts on asexuality, and revisiting feminist radical texts from...
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Spring 2021
“Beyond Empathy: Reading, Bearing Witness, and Testimony” is focused on the audiences of testimony, exploring the relational and ethical imperatives encompassed in audiences’ engagement with creative forms of testimonial accounts. Deeply rooted in colonial trajectories and grounded in...
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Fall 2018
This thesis examines representations of debt and obligation in works of Caribbean Canadian literature published between 1997 and 2007. It uses these representations to discuss the relationship between postcolonial, global, and diasporic approaches to cultural studies. These disciplinary...
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Spring 2023
The increased availability and use of assisted reproductive technologies, legislative changes that recognize equal marriage, and the expansion of legal parentage beyond “the rule of two” are inviting Canadians to reimagine fundamental questions about kinship, parentage, and legal recognition. My...
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Creating Resistance by Engaging Destruction: Three Contemporary Feminist Artists from Ukraine
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Destruction and production are two closely linked phenomenon within contemporary feminist art in Ukraine. Ukraine is currently embroiled in a context marked by destruction in the form of the annexation of Crimea and war in the Eastern Donbas region, along with the physical and emotional trauma...
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Dancing the Self: How Girls who Dance in Commercial Dance Studios Construct a Self Through the Dancing Body
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Dance has been identified as one of adolescent girls’ favourite activities (Clark, Spence & Holt, 2011; Dowda et al., 2006; Wright, Macdonald, & Groom, 2003) and the dance studio as an important site of girls’ physical activity (Harrow et al., 2009; Kuo et al., 2003). However, research on dance...
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Femmes scandaleuses : le pouvoir transformatif de la transgression chez Virginie Despentes, Nelly Arcan et aurélia aurita
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This study focuses on scandals in the feminine, or the media turmoil triggered by women’s writing demonstrating an awareness of women’s oppression. Scandalous women subvert norms by addressing sexuality, pleasure, desire as well as racism, hybrid identities, and power and domination relationships...
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Fragmented Feminisms in the Digital Age: Writing a History of the Present and Tracing the Conditions of Possibility of the #metoo Movement from an Intersectional Framework
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In 2017, the #metoo movement took Hollywood by storm and brought international attention to the widespread issue of sexual violence. In the aftermath of its fervour, scholarly inquiry into the #metoo movement and its influence are just beginning. Feminist response to and engagement with the...
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Spring 2015
Feminist resistance to gender oppression, while surely a collective political project, has an important individual dimension. Individual resistance most often takes the shape of self-transformation where one works on the self to change desires, attitudes, and practices. I argue that paradigms of...